Bridging Programme

The aim of the Bridging Programme is to offer insight into what is expected of a professional dancer and to groom students accordingly.

On this 18 month programme students between 18yrs-21yrs learn skills that bridge the gap between being a dance student and becoming a professional dancer.

Guest teachers and choreographers work with the Bridging Programme students from time to time, as well as lecturers and teachers for subjects that complement the course material.

As versatility is essential in the performing arts industry, students receive training in a variety of disciplines, including Classical Ballet, Contemporary, Jazz, African, Flamenco and Choreography.

Bridging Programme students have the opportunity to become members of DFA’s non-professional InSPIRAtions Youth Company, after an audition process, which offers abundant opportunities to build up performance experience.

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Passion is when you put more energy into something that is required to do it. It is more than just enthusiasm or excitement, passion is ambition that is materialised into action to put as much heart, mind, body and soul into something as is humanly possibly.Philip Boyd

I knew that if I could train and be good at dance I'd have an independent future.Theo Ndindwa

I am so lucky to have got the best training possible from people who loved us and loved what they were doing.Zandile Constable

When you dance, you challenge your body to the limit and this gave me the certainty that I could achieve my goals...'I didn't become a professional dancer, but what I got from DFA was more than dancing skills, I got life lessons; life's treasures.Monde Sitole

I can't say my life would be nothing without DFA, but it wouldn't be the way it is now. I have been all over the world and performed on many stages...People often say, "You have such good training," and I tell them exactly where I got it.Mbulelo Ndabeni

DFA changed my life in a way I could never have imagined. I learnt so much from my teachers and I hope to follow in their footsteps by helping other needy children.Bathembu Myira

Philip and Phyllie nurtured me and I'm where I am today because of them and DFA...They taught us that it was up to us to get somewhere; that we had to keep pushing ourselves so that we wouldn't stay at one level.Xola Putye

Phyllie taught me dancing, but she also taught me how to live; how to forgive. She will always be my inspiration.Noluyanda Mqulwana

If you have discipline, you can do anything...The love must [also] be there, otherwise there's no passion or commitment.Noluyanda Mqulwana

The studio and the stage are like holy ground to me. It's where I find the will and courage to go on. Dance is not just steps; it's a feeling, an energy that radiates out of you. People who are watching you feel part of it. If I can give something that heals them or makes them feel a magic moment, then that's what I want to keep doing.Byron Klassen

At DFA I feel I have a home and a family.Dineo Mphela

You can't be lazy; each day you learn a new thing, you keep pushing yourself. When you come across difficulties you find a way to overcome them.Odwa Makanda

Dancing makes me feel comfortable with myself.Tamsyn-Lucy Pretorius

Some of us won't become dancers, but because of what we learn at DFA, we all have a chance to become a professional at something.Olivia Stephaans

Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.Sylvie Guillem

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful… This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.Agnes de Mille

I don’t want dancers who want to dance, I want dancers who need to danceGeorge Balanchine

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discoveryMartha Graham

Dance is a song of the bodyMartha Graham

Dancing is like dreaming with your feetConstanze

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music Agnes De Mille

We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreamsAnonymous

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to danceGeorge Balanchine

Dancers are athletes of GodAlbert Einstein

Either you do the pirouette or you shoot yourself. One or the other, but something must happen.Monet Robier

The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too.Merce Cunningham

Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desiredMartha Graham

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.Martha Graham

It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer.Shanna LaFleur

) If you want to dance seriously, do. You must think about it day and night, dream about it, desire it.Christa Justus

Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policemen, always alert, always tense, but see policemen don't have to be beautiful at the same time.George Balanchine